Policy for applying copyright notices

[Jan Wildeboer]

Even worse, stripping (c) notes is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Years ago it was eactly what someone did to one of my projects (osCommerce) 
and I succesfully sued them in a german court. It was one of the first cases 
of GPL in court, BTW and the offender had to restore all original copyrigt 
notices.

#justsayin

Jan
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----- Original Message -----
From: board-bounces at ovirt.org <board-bounces at ovirt.org>
To: Livnat Peer <lpeer at redhat.com>
Cc: board at ovirt.org <board at ovirt.org>
Sent: Sun Oct 23 09:37:48 2011
Subject: Re: Policy for applying copyright notices

On 10/22/2011 01:18 PM, Livnat Peer wrote:
> I personally rather dropping the [name of copyright owner] I believe
> that's why we have history in the source control.

That is also fine.

Note that if a file is brought to the project it is considered bad form
to strip the copyright notice, so over time we will get a collection of
files with notices and without over time if code is re-used from other
OSS projects.

Carl.
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